Improvement in churn-dashers



ing, but also in adding, it is believed, to the stem with a succession -of inverted funnels or .the accompanying drawing, will further ex# A. w. HALL, OF new YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN cHURN-DASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 60,363, dated December 11, 1866.

Attached to the dasher-stein, and arranged To all cwm it 'may concern:

one above the other, are a succession of in- Be it known that I, A. W. HALL, of the city, county, and State of N ewYOrk, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement on Atmospheric Uhuru-Dashers, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this'fspeciiication, and which represents a vertical section of a churndasher constructed according tO my improvement, and as arranged for action within an ordinary churn-tub.

The introduction and agitation of air within the body of milk in a churn is no new theory or piLzciple of acti0n,and its advantages, not only in expediting the process of churn! be made of tin, zinc, or any other suitable material. These funnels, of which there may be any desired number, may either be of the same or dilerent sizes, but should be smaller than the dasher. They may be situated at equal or unequal distances apart. They not only serve, in conjunction with the dasher, to agitate the milk, by direct contact, but act as' cups to catch and carry down atmospheric air in the latter, said inverted funnels successively acting, each downstroke, to depress any air that may attempt -to rise in the line of or aro und the stem, and rendering unnecessary, for the purpose of introducing air, the rise of the dasher at intervals out of the milk. The conical exterior of these funnels in no way quantity Of butter produced from a given quantity of milk, are well understood. Vari` stroke of the dasher, butmaterially assists, by throwing the milk out against or toward the sides of the tub, in expediting and improving the churning process. An atmosph eric churndasher thus constructed therefore, has not only eiciency but great simplicity to recommend it.

Having thus described my invention, I do not claim the inverted funnels, per se but What I claim herein as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters PatentJ is- An atmospheric churn-dasher constructed with a series Of inverted funnels or hollow cones, arranged one above the other, and attached firmly and air-tight to the stem of the common dasher, in combination with the plate B at bottom of the stem, substantially as shown and described.

A. W.l HALL.

different ways to accomplish the same; but many or mostof such previous attempts have been defective or Otherwise objectionable.

It is to the atmospheric churn-dasher that my improvement relates; and the nature of my invention consists in providingtlie dasherhollow` cones4 arranged one abofe the other and attached air-tight to the stem, and which not only serve, in conjunction with the dasher beneath, to agitate the milk, but also to catch, or carry down and keep in circulation and agitation in the milk, atmospheric air.

The following description, with reference to plain this my invention. A is the dasher-stem, and B an ordinary flat dasher at foot, though any other suitable form may be used. The same 1s arranged for Witnesses: vertical action, in the usual way,withinachurn GEO. D. MCKINNEY, tub. JOHN ANTHONEY.

verted funnels or hollow cones, C, which may into the milk and to circulate and agitate it favors the lift or escape of air back in the up- 

